The popular and very successful singer Maria Becerra released his second studio album this week, titled The Argentinian girlspanning across twelve song genres bachata, cumbia, pop, reggaeton, trap and acoustic ballads.
The album is already available on the platforms and includes previously released singles: I hope that Y Automaticplus a bonus track.
Without collaborations or “feats”
According to Becerra, “In a world full of collaborations, it’s risky to release an all-solo album, but because it’s so personal, I felt it should be a story I tell myself.”
The disc it does not include participations with other artistsexcept for appearing in the backing vocals of his sister Ailín in ask.
The 22-year-old pop star added that in the songs of this new work “two facets are exposed: the wilder side, of sexual tension and seduction, and the sensitive, emotional and dramatic side”.
“Like the previous album, I didn’t think of a concept, I wanted to be myself and flow, and that’s reflected, like the fact that I love making music and am fascinated by all genres,” he said.
The record had Nico Cotton and Xross as producers, with whom Becerra met in a country house in Luján where they spent 10 days composing and where most of the songs came from. On the other hand, the theme I hope that It was produced by Big One and has over 89 million streams on Spotify and over 135 million views on YouTube.
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The release also has a special edition on Spotify called La Nena de Argentina – The improved album, a version that includes extra content, such as the stories behind each song commented by Becerra and videos. For instance:
1. Furious dogging. “It’s a song to keep glued, well down. Talk about the typical bowling encounter; with sweat, which is a context I love”.
2. Automatic. “A multiverse created inside a car where anything can happen between a couple who can’t wait to get to their destination to do everything”
3. When we make love. “I wrote this ballad for my boyfriend and it speaks of our love so special that it moves me. It describes the emotions I feel when we are together and which are more and more intense”.
4. Hopefully. “The story of getting over it after a very painful breakup. After her release, the protagonist returns to enjoy being single and her friends. 5. HELLO. “This is the farewell cumbia. A tribute to traditional cumbia and to my most important referents of the genre: Selena and Gilda”.
6. Till death do us part. “This bachata tells the story of a couple who maintain a long-distance bond until they finally meet and discover they will be together forever.”
7. Double life. “Driven by the sound of an acoustic guitar, this ballad tells the story of a girl who is the lover of a man who has another woman. She is in love and suffers a lot until she understands that this love will never happen.”
8. Inspiring. “In this reggaeton the protagonist sings it to a girl she lost for not having given her the importance she deserved and now she comes back to make it clear that she hasn’t forgotten her and can’t let her go”.
9. Commandments. “The musical proposition of this song is experimental, more aggressive, with clear nods to the dembow. It’s very different from what I usually do.”
10. Ask for it. “This is a clear song of sexual tension, a desperate cry for love, to feel the other, his affection and his body”.
11. It will never happen. “In an electro-pop vein, this is a song about two best friends who love won’t happen between, despite one party being confused.”
12. The Argentinian girl. “It’s a song that comes from the idea of describing my alter ego. La Nena de Argentina is the personality that I have adopted as an artist and she defines me because I love my country and I want the whole world to know that I am Argentina ”.
BONUS TRACK: Defy Fate (Available January 2023). “I wrote this ballad for my parents. It is a letter with which I intend to rebel against fate when it comes to the people I love. Against what is natural, the passing of life, the passing of the years”.
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Source: Clarin
